For this week we were studying the graphic novel which was the extension and the next evolution of the comic book. We were particularly supposed to look at the work of Will Eisner and Craig Thompson. For this weeks homework I read Will Eisner's "Contract with God". I was immediately interested at the title as I am a fairly spiritual person myself and have my own relationship with God that at times has it's highs and more often it's lows. I found it interesting to see how Eisner portrayed all varieties of people and how they lived their lives, in relation to how God had intended.
The real interesting subject of this week is actually the advancement of the graphic novel itself. It is interesting to what is essentially a book represented in the form of comics and drawings instead of just words, or even no words similarly to the "Arrival" which we read at the beginning of the course. Similar to comic books these larger extended novels also had a variety of subjects. Some like Eisner's "Contract with God" deal with interesting yet very unique concepts that were rarely even found in other forms of media at the time, and others could just be collecting a particular storyline in a comic book series.
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